Rose Morgan (Barbra Streisand) teaches a course in Romantic Literature at Columbia University, but doesn't have any romance in her own life. Passion is something she desperately longs for.
Gregory Larkin (Jeff Bridges), who teaches mathematics at the same university, has been hurt by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union based on friendship and respect with someone he's not sexually attracted to.
While Rose is resigned to life's short change, Greg decides to fight his plight and seek the impossible. The mathematics genius places an ad that reads, "Columbia University professor (male) seeks a woman interested in common goals and companionship. Must have Ph.D. and be over thirty-five. Physical appearance not important." Through an act of deception typical of Rose's near-amoral sister, Greg and Rose meet. They are decidedly different in virtually every way, but find one another deliriously compelling. Rebelling against customary modern pressures, they come together on comfortable, if shaky, common ground. They form an unorthodox marital arrangement in which intellectual passion supplants sexual heat.
The contract has an air of nobility, yet it negates some basic human needs. They will come to learn that two people who meet, marry and remain celibate are courting confusion and chaos -especially if one of them undergoes a major change that messes up their carefully concocted equation.
Directed by Barbra Streisand, The Mirror Has Two Faces is a touching romantic comedy that explores the modern myths of beauty and sex and how they complicate relationships.
Barbra Streisand, Jeff Bridges, Pierce Brosnan, George Segal, Mimi Rogers, Brenda Vaccaro, Elle Macpherson, Austin Pendleton and Lauren Bacall star in the romantic-comedy that reiterates the fact that our most sophisticated moves are no match for nature's unrelenting hand.
To tell her story of love as the 21 st century closes in, Streisand assembled a remarkable cast. With Jeff Bridges as her love interest, Pierce Brosnan, the movies' current James Bond, was selected to portray her simple but nevertheless rich and handsome fantasy lover, Alex. The incomparable Lauren Bacall stars as Rose's mother Hannah, a self-obsessed creature for whom external beauty is life's only currency. The highly regarded actress Mimi Rogers joined the cast as Rose's unusually selfish sister Claire who thoroughly believes their mother's empty philosophy. Rose's best friend Doris is played by the award-winning actress Brenda Vaccaro, while long-popular film star George Segal is Henry, Greg's peer and confidant. International
model Elle Macpherson appears as Candace, the young beauty who symbolizes Greg's problem, and Austin Pendleton plays Barry, the nerdy suitor who demonstrates Rose's predicament.
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